Thornham County Primary School

Thornham County Primary School is a village school built in 1858. It features random coursed knapped flint with stone dressings and roofs covered in fish-scale tiles. The building has east and west gable wings with a cross wing, which may have originally served as the school house. It is designed in a High Victorian Gothic style and has a distinctive H plan, consisting of single and one-and-a-half storeys.

The east and west gabled single-storey schoolroom blocks are notable for their large ecclesiastical-style Geometric-Decorated three-light tracery windows, complete with hood moulds. The structure includes stone plinth and sill level string courses, stone quoins, kneelers, and coped parapets. There are trefoil ventilation holes in the gables, with the west gable featuring two quatrefoil ventilation holes and the east gable having two purlin iron heads in the same position.

The returns have trefoil-headed Gothic arched lights set within straight-headed frames, and there are projecting single-storey wings with boarded doors. The west range is finished in flint with stone dressings, while the east range is rendered. The cross wing at the center has an off-centre towered porch connecting to the west range. The tower is supported by set-off angle buttresses and features a four-centred arch door that is boarded and adorned with wrought iron foliage tracery, along with a quatrefoil window above and a moulded brick eaves cornice.

The roof is a rectangular mansard style covered in fish-scale tiles, terminating in a hipped design with an open wooden bellcote topped by a leaded broach spirelet. The cross wing has a ground floor three-light oak mullioned Gothic-headed window casement, as well as a similar stone-coped gabled half dormer in the attic. A ground-level stone string course and a sill-level string course run across the center, forming drip moulds for the tower door and the ground floor cross wing window. The building is also adorned with crested ridge tiles and has three sets of gault brick stacks with stone copings and octagonal shafts: three on the west range, three in the center, and originally three on the east range, of which two now survive. The east and west ranges feature hexagonal section boarded open roofs with decorative bosses and ribs in the interior.